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TODAY: Friday Seminar with Peter Orner
The Writers Series is presented as part of the MFA Program in WritingFriday, February 10, 2012, 3:30–5 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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150 De Haro at 15th Street
Free and open to the public
More info: Teresa Walsh, twalsh@cca.edu
Peter Orner’s fiction and nonfiction has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Granta, the Paris Review, McSweeney’s, the Southern Review, the Forward, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Ploughshares. Stories have been anthologized in Best American Stories and twice won a Pushcart Prize. Orner was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2006) as well as the two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship (2007-08). A film version of one of Orner’s stories, The Raft, with a screenplay by Orner and the film’s director, Rob Jones, is currently in production and stars Ed Asner.
Esther Stories (Houghton Mifflin/ Mariner, 2001) was awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction, and was a Finalist for the Pen Hemingway Award and the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. Esther Stories was a 2001 New York Times Notable Book. Of the book, Margot Livesey wrote in the New York Times Book Review, “Orner doesn’t simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls.”
The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (Little, Brown, 2006) is set in Namibia where Orner lived and worked in the early 1990s. The novel was a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a San Francisco Chronicle Best-Seller, and winner of the Bard Fiction Prize.
Orner is also the editor of two nonfiction books, Underground America (2008) and Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives (coeditor Annie Holmes, 2010), both published by McSweeney’s / Voice of Witness, an imprint devoted to using oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. Harper’s wrote, “Hope Deferred might be the most important publication out of Zimbabwe in the past thirty years.”
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Friday Readings
Presented by the MFA Program in WritingFriday, February 17, 2012, 5:30–7:30 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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Refreshments at 5:30; readings begin at 6 p.m.
Free and open to the public
More info: Teresa Walsh: twalsh@cca.edu
Friday Readings unite first and second-year MFA Program in Writing students in a casual and supportive setting where they read their works to a public audience. Check with program manager Teresa Walsh for a complete list of readers throughout the spring term.
Categories: Graduate Studies Public Calendar Student Life Writing Writing and Literature
Friday Readings
Presented by the MFA Program in WritingFebruary 24, 2012–24, 5:30–7:30 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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Refreshments at 5:30; readings begin at 6 p.m.
Free and open to the public
More info: Teresa Walsh: twalsh@cca.edu
Friday Readings unite first and second-year MFA Program in Writing students in a casual and supportive setting where they read their works to a public audience. Check with program manager Teresa Walsh for a complete list of readers throughout the spring term.
Categories: Graduate Studies Public Calendar Student Life Writing Writing and Literature
New Rules of Storytelling
Interaction Design Lecture by Jonathan HarrisMonday, February 27, 2012, 7–8:30 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Reception: 6:30pm
Free and open to the public
More info:
ixd@cca.edu, 415.703.9504
Jonathan Harris makes projects that reimagine how humans relate to technology and to each other. Combining elements of computer science, anthropology, visual art and storytelling, his projects range from building the world’s largest time capsule (with Yahoo!) to documenting an Alaskan Eskimo whale hunt on the Arctic Ocean (with a warm hat). He is the co-creator of We Feel Fine, which continuously measures the emotional temperature of the human world through large-scale blog analysis, and has made other projects about online dating, modern mythology, happiness, anonymity, news, and language. His latest project is Cowbird, a community of storytellers working to build a public library of human experience.
Categories: Design Interaction Design Public Calendar Writing
Reading by Denise Newman
HearSay Reading SeriesTuesday, February 28, 2012, 7:30–9:30 pm
Nahl Hall, Oakland campus
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Info: humblepie@cca.edu
Denise Newman is the author of three poetry collections. The most recent one is The New Make Believe published in 2010 by the Post-Apollo Press. She is the translator of two novels by the Danish poet Inger Christensen, and the most recent one, Azorno, was published by New Directions in 2009. She has been involved in numerous collaborations, including several choral works with the composer Kui Dong.
All HearSay events include delicious refreshments!
Categories: HearSay Reading Series Lecture Series Public Calendar Writing Writing and Literature
Ecopoesis: Spring Graduate Studies Symposium
March 7–9, 2012
San Francisco campus
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Info: ecopoesis@cca.edu
Artists, filmmakers, writers, and scientists come together to explore frontline concerns around climate, biodiversity, and spatial expressions through film screenings, lectures, performances, and an expo of speculative + practical designs + art. The collaboration seeks to address our changing relationship with ideas of nature and to offer fresh understandings of the places we live + research + create around + in. This symposium is a collaborative effort of the graduate programs in Design and Fine Arts, with a sponsored reading in Graduate Writing.
More info will be posted as it becomes available!
Categories: Architecture Curatorial Practice Design Design MBA Fine Arts Graduate Studies Public Calendar Visual and Critical Studies Writing
Word. World. 2012
Presented by the MFA Program in WritingFriday, March 30, 2012, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Info: 415.551.9237 or twalsh@cca.edu
Poetry, prose, and writings in between by graduate students in the MFA Program in Writing. Celebrating 10 years of literary excellence!
Each reading is followed by a reception.
Categories: Graduate Studies Lecture Series Public Calendar Writing
Graduate Program in Writing Virtual Information Session
Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 6–7 pmCan’t make it to campus for a visit but want to learn more about the Graduate Program in Writing at CCA? A virtual information session may be just the thing you need!
What the session covers:
• Program highlights
• Curriculum
• Campus facilities available to graduate students
• Financial aid resources
• Application process and requirements
There will be a variety of sessions each month from January through May and will be lead by the Director of Graduate Admissions. To find the date and time that’s right for you, check out our events calendar.
Meeting with us online lets us connect with you, anywhere, in real time. Here's all you'll need:
• A computer or wireless device with an Internet connection
• An audio connection - either through your computer or phone
• A webcam (optional)
RSVP is required.
A link with a log-in and password to the Virtual Information Session will be sent to the email address indicated on the RSVP one day before the session.
Categories: Graduate Admissions Writing
Word. World. 2012
Presented by the MFA Program in WritingFriday, April 6, 2012, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Info: 415.551.9237 or twalsh@cca.edu
Poetry, prose, and writings in between by graduate students in the MFA Program in Writing. Celebrating 10 years of literary excellence!
Each reading is followed by a reception.
Categories: Graduate Studies Lecture Series Public Calendar Writing
Word. World. 2012
Presented by the MFA Program in WritingFriday, April 20, 2012, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
San Francisco campus map (PDF)
Directions »
Info: 415.551.9237 or twalsh@cca.edu
Poetry, prose, and writings in between by graduate students in the MFA Program in Writing. Celebrating 10 years of literary excellence!
Each reading is followed by a reception.
Categories: Graduate Studies Lecture Series Public Calendar Writing